The Magic Cauldron
Publisher: Eric Steven Raymond
Published: 2000
Language: eng
Description: version 3.0
Table of contents: title: Available to read online: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/magic-cauldron/; title: Table of Contents; title: Indistinguishable From Magic; title: Beyond Geeks Bearing Gifts; title: The Manufacturing Delusion; title: The ``Information Wants to be Free'' Myth; title: The Inverse Commons; title: Reasons for Closing Source; title: Use-Value Funding Models; title: The Apache Case: Cost-Sharing; title: The Cisco Case: Risk-Spreading; title: Why Sale Value is Problematic; title: Indirect Sale-Value Models; title: Loss-Leader/Market Positioner; title: Widget Frosting; title: Give Away the Recipe, Open a Restaurant; title: Accessorizing; title: Free the Future, Sell the Present; title: Free the Software, Sell the Brand; title: Free the Software, Sell the Content; title: When to be Open, When to be Closed; title: What Are the Payoffs?; title: How Do They Interact?; title: Doom: A Case Study; title: Knowing When to Let Go; title: Open Source as a Strategic Weapon; title: Cost-sharing as a competitive weapon; title: Resetting the competition; title: Growing the pond; title: Preventing a choke hold; title: Open Source and Strategic Business Risk; title: The Business Ecology of Open Source; title: Coping with Success; title: Open R&D and the Reinvention of Patronage; title: Getting There From Here; title: Conclusion: Life after the Revolution; title: Afterword: Why Closing a Driver Loses Its Vendor Money; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Acknowledgements